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Milestones, Mar. 7, 1960

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Married. Jenny Ann Lindstrom, 21, pink-cheeked, blue-eyed daughter of Ingrid Bergman and her first husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom; and Fuller Earle Callaway III, 28, scion of a Georgia textile family; she for the first time, he for the second; on the spur of the moment, before a justice of the peace at Elko, Nev.

Divorced. Quentin Reynolds, 57, journalist-author (They Fought for the Sky); by Virginia Peine Reynolds, 43, onetime cinemactress; after 18 years of marriage, no children; in Hamilton, Ala.

Died. Dr. Tom Douglas Spies, 57, nutrition expert whose boyhood horror of pellagra (once widespread, often fatal vitamin-deficiency disease in the South) led him to use nicotinic acid to cure the disease in the South and the North (where alcoholism was a principal contributing factor) ; of cancer; in Manhattan.

Died. Adriano Olivetti, 58, Italian industrialist who turned a one-plant operation he inherited in 1932 into Europe’s No. 1 manufacturer of typewriters and office machines of such craftsmanship that they grace art museums as well as offices; of a heart attack, aboard a train in Aigle, Switzerland. An idealistic businessman as well as a sound one, Olivetti boasted that he gave his workers the best conditions in Italy and a voice in management. In off hours he promoted a broad-based cooperative movement, on the strength of it won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in 1958.

Died. Hermann Lindrath, 63, West Germany’s Minister for Federal Assets (since 1957), who handled the selling of government-owned industries to the nation’s small shareholders (the $25 million Preussag Co. last year went to 215,000 investors); of a lung congestion; in Bonn.

Died. Leon Berard, 84, member of the French Academy and Raymond Poincare’s political protege, a classical scholar who horrified liberals when Minister of Public Instruction during the early 1920s by decreeing compulsory study of Greek and Latin, later (1940-43) was Vichy Ambassador to the Vatican; of influenza; in Paris.

Died. Samuel Alfred Mitchell, 85, longtime (1913-45) astronomer at the University of Virginia, who calculated the distances to 1,800 stars, in a lifetime traveled 90,000 miles for advantageous looks at the “most gorgeous spectacle in science”—the solar eclipse; in Bloomington, Ind.

Died. William John Bulow, 91, onetime (1927-31) Governor of South Dakota and isolationist Senator (1931-43), famed for his aim in spitting tobacco (“He enters the campaign with great expectorations,” said an observer), who before World War II advised Congress, “Better raise more spinach instead of building battleships”; in Washington, D.C.

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